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Released
1985 · FILM

Cocoon

A retired couple and their friends discover a hidden pool that restores their lost vitality, but they must decide whether to embrace the miraculous rejuvenation or risk losing everything when the extraterrestrial source demands a price.

“It is everything you've dreamed of. It is nothing you expect.”

Directed by
Ron Howard, Hans Beimler
Written by
Tom Benedek, David Saperstein
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
117 min
ComedyDramaSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A group of elderly trespassers who swim in a pool containing alien cocoons experience a sudden surge of youthful energy.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 176+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Daniel P HanleyShot by Donald PetermanScored by James HornerDesigned by Jack T CollisSound by Richard S ChurchCostumes by Aggie Guerard RodgersStunts by Ted Grossman

Box Office

1985 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$85.3M

Budget$17.5M
Worldwide gross$85.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $76.1M — 89% of worldwide · International: $9.2M (11%)

Opening weekend: $7.9M — 10% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $13.1M — 17% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,140 theaters

Also known as

  • Cocoon - L'energia dell'universoit
  • (Bulgarian)Какавида
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • CanadaJun 21, 1985
  • United StatesJun 21, 1985
  • ArgentinaJul 18, 1985
  • ItalyAug 1, 1985
  • AustraliaAug 22, 1985

Companies

Production20th Century Fox, Zanuck/Brown Productions, SLM Production Group, St. Petersburg Clearwater Film Commission
Distribution20th Century Fox, Fox Columbia TriStar Films
Special effectsCannom Creations, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Robert Short Productions Inc.
Other companiesSkywalker Sound, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Lucasfilm THX / TAP Theater Alignment Program, Mayflower Recording, Pacific Title

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